This is the main CAE information page. You will find general information here, as well as the assignments you are obliged to do.
- The CAE WEBSITE: http://www.cambridgeesol.org/exams/general-english/cae.html
- The original CAE letter: CAE Letter 1 (2011)
- List of participants: CAE 2011 Participants
- Letters of Motivation:
- Pronunciation Chart: CAE PC
- Official CAE Literature List: CAE 2011 Literature List
Homework WEEK 9 / 24-5-2012
Idem, see before. As still a lot of your work has not been checked, we will continue to do so in this lesson.
Homework WEEK 10 / 10-5-2012
Idem, see before
Homework WEEK 9 / 5-4-2012
During the 15-3 lesson we discussed the Wordsworth poem, 4 students were judged on their speaking skills (as promised last time; more students are to follow next time) and we discussed a number of exercises from Headway Chapter 1.
A lot of CAE-students were absent (10 out of 19 students!) andmost of the present students had not prepared properly (!) What is going on here?
For the April 5 lesson you will have to catch up with all the work, meaning:
- Start (or continue) your personal vocabtraining (see below)
- Complete Headway Unit 1
- Do p.23 and 24 of Headway Unit 2
- Do p.31 and 32 of Headway Unit 2
- read Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner’
Homework WEEK 8 / 15-3-2012
During the last lesson on 16-2 we discussed the following things:
- the midterm assessment (who’s in and who’s out?)
- what to expect from CAE and why
- vocabulary training
- grammar training
- skills grading
Furthermore we started a discussion on Wordsworth’s poem Daffodils. For 8-3, please do this Wordsworth task: CAE 2011 Wordsworth and have a look at this presentation: Wordsworth Presentation.
Secondly, we agreed on you starting your own vocab training by keeping track of the unknown words you come across. You’ll deal with them in this way:
- Look up the word in a dictionary – translate the word into Dutch and explain it in English
- Look up the word in a thesaurus and find synonyms
- make your own sentence with the word in which the word is explained in a clear way
Thirdly, you’ll have another look at the Headway review test to find out if there are any grammatical topics you need clarification on.
During the lesson of 8 March you’ll be tested on your speaking skills (and graded). To practice your pronunciation click on the ‘speaking’ tab of this website and start practising/improving your pronunciation!
Homework WEEK 7 / 16-2-2012
Find the poem by William Wordsworth called ‘Daffodils’ and read it. Furthermore make sure you are really really really up to date with all the homework so far!
Homework WEEK 6 / 25-1-2012
Homework WEEK 5 / 21-12-2011
Of course you have done all the homework you had to do so far, if not, I strongly recommend you to do so!
New homework:
- Historical assignment: Find out the connection between the Boston Teaparty and the current Teaparty
- Send your two phrases (see last time’s homework)
- Create your own Skills Dossier in which you keep track of your developments. It may be noted that all the homework you have done so far msut find its way in this dossier. We will further discuss this in the week-5 lesson
- Find a song yourself in which another explicit tense is used. Send it, together with your comments and a youtube-link, to me.
Homework WEEK 4 / 7-12-2011
- Find all the meanings of ‘OUT’ in the Peter Hammill song ‘A Way Out
- Describe why Sting uses the Present Simple throughout his song ‘An Englishman in New York’
- Copy both songs from the web and include their texts with your work in your personal dossier
- Explain the word ‘jingoism’
- explain the difference between shall and will
- Study your mistakes on the last page of the Reviwe Test
- EXTRA: send me the two phrases you found together with your explanations
Homework WEEK 3 / 23-11-2011
- Check out: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/index.html and bring 2 interesting phrases to class where you can give a short explanation
- Complete the assignments of Headway Orientation
- Study the ‘tenses’ sheet, find an example for each and every tense and come to class with your critical questions
Homework WEEK 1 / 09-11-2011
- Do the New Headway Review tests (on all levels)
- Do the assignments of Headway Orientation
